Jonathan Brereton is the Chief Strategy and Finance Officer and has more than two decades of leadership experience in the CDFI small business lending sector. Jonathan was the first Executive Director of Thread Capital, an organization he led to greater than $50M in small business assets under management over its first five years. Jonathan was also President of Small Business Capital for the NC Rural Center, overseeing approximately $400M in small business programs. Prior to his work with Scale Link, Thread Capital, and the NC Rural Center, Jonathan led Accion Chicago (now Allies for Community Business) for 14 years. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from Wheaton College (IL).